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' Unire RALPH S. JENNINGS, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

PACKING-CASE..

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 237,875, dated February 15, 1881.

Application filed January 3, 1881. (No modelf) To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, RALPH S. J ENNINGs, of Baltimore city, State of Maryland, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Packing-Cases; and I hereby declare the same to be fully, clearly, and exactly described as follows, reference being had to the accompanyin g drawings, in Which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of the device; and Figs. 2 and 3 are sectional views, on an enlarged scale, of the joints between the body and heads. Fig. 4 is a horizontal sectional view of the device, showing in detached view the seam on an enlarged scale.

My invention relates to packages or packing-cases for containing general merchandise, and designed to subserve the same ends as bagging, burlaps, or plank cases at a greatlyreduced cost.

While the packing case about to be described is, by reason of its cheapness, elasticity, toughness, and strength,adapted for general use, it is, in the particular form shown, more particularly designed for containing fertilizers, which, on account of their corrosive action and pungent and o'ensive odor, may not be kept in stock in bagging.

In practice I form the body A of the packing-case of several (two or more) layers of veneer, e e e, having the grain crossed in the usual way, and cemented together by a mixture consisting of abouteleven parts of pitch to one of deadoil, or by any other suitable cement. The side seam, a, is stitched or cemented, stitching being preferred. An outer cover of paper,

f, maybe pasted over the outer sheet ofveneer.

'I he top and bottom B are formed also of veneer layers c c c", and may have a paper cover, f. The tops and bottoms are made somewhat smaller in cross-section than the body A, leaving an annular space all round, as shown. To the edges of the Walls A are secured strips of burlaps or equivalentstron g textile fabric by stitching D, or in any other convenient `Way, the ap b" covering the edges of the walls, and being, in turn, covered by the flap b. Asi milar strip, b'., is secured to the edge of the heads B, and is secured by overseaming C to the flap b. The annular space between the heads and walls is covered by the projecting edge of the ap 11', as shown. As an alternative, I secure the heads to the walls by a single iap, E, (see Fig. 3,) stitched to the heads and both sides of the edge of the walls. In either case the joint between the heads and body is closed in such manner as to prevent any loss of the contents of the package, while admitting of a slight yielding or giving of the Walls or body without straining the heads, and furnishing a soft and yielding rim to receive impacts or blows, and upon which the case may be trundled, as a barrel.

In packing fertilizers in the case, by preference a strip of veneer is laid longitudinally rof the seam on the inside, and a layer of some material not liable to be corroded or attacked, such as thin wood or thick paper, is laid between the heads and contents.

In applying the invention to the construction of cotton-bale covers I make the textile-fabric rim somewhat broader, to give a fair hold for the hooks used in handling the bales, and for this use, as well as for all others in which the case is designed to hold inflammable or combustible contents, I treat it with tungstate of soda (NaZWOB) or equivalent material, and use an incombustible cement for securing the veneers.

The case lls a want long felt by dealers in fertilizers, as the bagging now used is liable to corrode and rot, and is permeable to the odor of the material. Country-store keepers, for these reasons, are frequently unwilling to keep fertilizers for sale, and farmers are compelled to order in quantities from the dealers, and many sales are lost by reason of the comparatively greater cost of the material when ordered in small quantities, such as would often be purchased for use on the garden or truck-patch, if the fertilizer could be bought at the country store.

The case, by reason of its elasticity, is stron ger than plank, practically impervious to Water, is unattacked by materials which will corrode bagging, and is nearly as cheap as paper, besides being very light.

Obviously the package may be of any desired shape and size; but for containing pul' verulent materials, such as fertilizers, it is, by preference, cylindrical, as that shape aords the greatest facility for handling.

I. A packing-case Whose head is united to the body by means of textile fabric, and having IOO an open space between the edge of the head and the body, as and for the purpose set forth.

2. The packing-case herein described, consisting of a body constructed of two or more layers of veneer cemented together, and having its head united to the body by a band of textile fabric stitched to the head and to the body, and united over the edge of the body, as set forth.

3. A paekingcase having strips of textile fabric secured to the outer edge of the body and to the rim of the head, and stitched together over the edge of the walls, forming a space between the body and head, as set forth. zo

RALPH S. JENNINGS. Witnesses:

R. D. WILLIAMS, GEO. 0. MANNING. 

